The Puppeteers' Apprentice

Urashima Tarō – A Transitonal Tale

After a sell-out Puppet Festival performance in Buxton Opera House’s new Pavilion Arts Centre, local based Community Interest Company Funny Wonders Inc. are offering people a chance to work closely with its team of professional artists in developing its most recent performance.

Project Manager Laurie Agnew said “These free workshops will give a valuable insight into the way professional artists with different backgrounds work in collaboration with each other ”.

Funny Wonders Inc. affectionately known as FWinc also want to offer people who participate in this free professional development workshops the opportunity to work with them in the future. FWinc plan to take various performances and workshops, including their latest piece - 'Urashima Tarō – A Transitonal Tale’ into schools across the East Midlands and North West.

FWinc created ‘Urashima Tarō – A Transitonal Tale’ in collaboration with Transition Buxton who are a local group that forms part of the international Transition Network. With the working title of MiST (Music in Shadow Theatre) the piece was inspired by a traditional Japanese tale and has a live soundtrack created using recycled instruments. Using shadow puppetry and music, the story explores modern lifestyles and how we could create a sustainable, fairer and more satisfying world.

For more information please contact Laurie on 07870 703 962 ...read more... about The Puppeteers' Apprentice

Creative Partnerships

Creative Partnerships fosters innovative, long-term partnerships between and creative professionals, including artists, performers, architects, multimedia developers and scientists. These partnerships inspire young people, teachers and creative professionals to challenge how they work and experiment with new ideas. Young people develop the skills they need to perform well not only in exams and extra-curricular activities, but also in the workplace and wider society.

Funny Wonders believe creativity is the wider ability to question, make connections, innovate, problem solve and reflect critically. These are skills that are demanded by today’s employers.

Creative learning empowers young people to imagine how the world could be different and gives them the confidence and motivation to make positive change happen. This helps young people to engage with their education and to achieve.

Creative Partnerships programmes demand that young people play a full role in their creative learning. We believe that our programmes are most effective when young people are actively involved in leading and shaping them, taking responsibility for their own learning.

Creative Partnerships programmes enable children and young people to develop the skills needed to play an active leadership role in school life.

Through Creative Partnerships Funny Wonders will work with schools from Key Stages 1 to 4 across the East Midlands. Briefs for Creative Partnership Workshops will begin in September and artists interested in taking part in this exciting programme are invited join the Funny Wonders Artist Register. ...read more... about Creative Partnerships

Puppetry for Television

TV Puppeteer Marcus Clake recenlty gave his views on his Puppetry for Television workshop, one of the many highlights at this years Buxton Puppet Festival.

"...it went really well and I was pleased to be pushing the boundary's of my Puppet Making and Puppeteering Workshops. I now have some really clear ideas of how I'm going to innovate and develop my Workshops. Next year I hope to hold some startlingly original ones. So thanks to all who too part and thanks to the Buxton Puppet Festival for giving me the opportunity to practise and progress Puppetry."

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